24 WAYFARING NOTIONS 



float for years and years and years up with the 

 flood and down with the ebb, and other little 

 matters, why the Ouse would be something to 

 be proud of in a small way. This Ouse, whose 

 mud is own brother to the Yorkshire namesake's, 

 a proved salmon river, while the former has only 

 traditionary claim to the distinction, is a very 

 fishy river and gives much sport, like another 

 member of the family — the one which is fond of 

 wandering over Huntingdon racecourse and 

 which, down by King's Lynn, has fine stretches 

 for boat-racing, though a very muddy-banked 

 customer, as I suppose nearly all tidal streams 

 must be. 



Correspondents have been kind enough to 

 write giving descriptions of canoe voyages made 

 over the course I mentioned recently as now 

 impracticable — viz., from the Thames to the 

 English Channel by way of the Wey and, so far 

 as practicable, the Wey-Arun Canal to the Arun 

 River and so on to Littlehampton. No doubt 

 the logs would be read with interest, but you can 

 hardly be said to navigate your boat from Surrey 

 to Sussex when, instead of carrying you, it has 

 to be carried ; but still, one good turn deserves 

 another, and though hoicking a canoe about on 

 land is bothersome if you feel it that way, and 

 struggling through weed and reed beds toilsome, 

 especially when you are in any sort of a hurry, 

 you can make good fun out of the work. While 

 thanking the gentlemen for telling me how the 

 transit has been engineered I feel that I ought 

 to put in a word of caution for general benefit. 

 I do not say anything about contingencies attach- 

 ing to getting yourself and craft across country 

 which in parts involves trespass, always likely 



